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Gulu Archdiocese
Catholic Ministry Initiated by Salesians for Refugees in Uganda Spreads to Locals
A Catholic ministry, which members of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) initiated about five years ago in Uganda’s Gulu Archdiocese to serve South Sudanese refugees in the East African nation has spread to local people who had stayed for long without pastoral care.
Salesians Empowering Hundreds of Young Refugees in Uganda with Vocational Skills
Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in Uganda are reaching out to over 600 young refugees through vocational training initiatives being realized at the Don Bosco Vocational Center, operating inside Palabek Refugee Resettlement Camp in Gulu Archdiocese.
Refugees in Uganda Launch “Laudato Si’ Garden” to Address Country’s Growing Deforestation
Students at the Don Bosco Palabek Refugee Services in Uganda have launched a tree planting drive aimed at ending deforestation in the country by planting thousands of trees at their facility.
How Tears of Refugees Moved Missionary Cleric to Initiate Project for Vulnerable in Uganda
Fr. Lazar Arasu remembers one Sunday in June 2017 when a group of refugees in Uganda’s Gulu Archdiocese surrounded him, weeping and begging him not to abandon them.
Catholic Sisters’ Initiative in Africa Soliciting Laptops to Foster “online” Apostolate
The leadership of the initiative that facilitates education for women Religious in Africa is appealing to people of good will and well-wishers to facilitate the acquisition of 21 laptops to foster the apostolate of Catholic Sisters working “so hard to support their communities” in Africa, an official of the entity has told ACI Africa.
Ugandan Cleric Not “allowed to exercise priestly ministry” after Joining Active Politics
A member of the Clergy of Uganda’s Gulu Archdiocese has been suspended from exercising his priestly ministry following his decision to join active politics even after his Local Ordinary “tried very much to dissuade him from taking such a step.”
Ugandan Nun Eyes Coveted Global Teacher Prize for Transforming Ex-Rebels’ Lives
Some day in 1986 when the Lord’s Resistance Army, an infamous rebel group that terrorized people in the northern parts of Uganda, was at the height of their activities in the East African landlocked nation, a young Catholic nun who had just professed as a religious felt hopeless at the sight of the torture that people underwent at the hands of the rebels.
